My Pregnancy & Labor Story

Hey everyone I decided to let you all in the details of my pregnancy & labor ! 

So, I was a pretty miserable pregnant person.. Lol I mean I was huge, moody, puking everyday and super hot all day long! So those all combined can make someone pretty miserable.. Well at least it did for me! I found out I was pregnant at 6 weeks. My symptoms I noticed were unusual breast pain, sleeping anywhere and everywhere, nausea and the most obvious missed period. Well as time went on, I gained weight very very fast, I was only 115 pounds before I got pregnant and I quickly was very very big! I'm not joking about it ethier I retained ALOT of water. At the end of my pregnancy I weighed 180 pounds... This actually made me very depreseed during my pregnancy. I felt like a whale and it was something im definitely not use to at all. I mean picture it in your head I'm about 5'3 in height and 180 pounds ... My mom, boyfriend and bestfriend/cousin constantly reassured me that I was having a baby so this was NORMAL. But I never listened. Anyway, my doctor had told me I was due September 30th 2013... No matter how much I had told her that she was wrong and I was due sooner (September 23 2013) she insisted saying I was having a "big baby". Ok so I'm already terrfied that I'm having a baby at the age of 19 and delivering this baby, but now my doctor had put in my head that I was going to have a sumo wrestler for a baby.. GREAT..   As if wasn't scared enough. My mother kept telling me she didn't think I was having that big of a baby. Nethier did I to be honest. But after finding outmy boyfriend   was 10 POUNDS WHEN HE WAS BORN I was postive my baby girl was going to be huge !! LOL! 

Now along with depression I was constantly worrying I was going to have a still born.. Don't ask me why. But it was my worst fear and I literally made myself sick because of how much I thought of it.. I searched google about it once, the results were horrifying!! (I know, stupid me for reading google)... But hey I couldn't go talk to my doctors about this they'd probably think i was insane. I did get over this phase after a while. Thankfully!! Now I was pregnant all of SUMMER.. This I think was the most horrible time of my pregnancy... I was always extremely hot, my feet were constantly balloons and I was carrying DOUBLE THE WEIGHT THEN I NORMALLY DO.. All I'm saying people is , you should already give your mother a high five for carrying you 9 months , but please IF THEY CARRIED YOU THROUGH A WHOLE ENTIRE SUMMER WHILE IN THEIR LAST TRIMESTER PLEASE GIVE THEM A DOUBLE HIGH FIVE!! It is not easy... Lol . Pregnancy cravings were riduclous. I craved this portugese soup called "soupa de feijao" it's a soup that is made with beans and vegetables.. I made my poor boyfriend go on hunts for me for this stupid soup... We never had luck UNTIL one day we walked into a portugese chicken place and they had it.. Oh my I was the happiest person on earth! Finally I got the soup I've been craving for three weeks!! When I had finished the soup my craving was still not satisfied.. So I asked my boyfriend to please go get me more but this time with specfic instructions "ask for more beans". He did not wanna ask for more beans Cause that's obviously embarrassing, but the great boyfriend that he is, he asked for more beans just for me (awwww). I never really craved anything else to be honest except spicy foods and big glasses of milk. There came a point in my pregnancy I no longer could stand and type of meat or fish. It made me wanna throw up just looking at it.. For some odd reason I couldn't eat cereal ethier ... Every time I tried I puked (gross). Phew, I am so glad that not liking meat was only during my pregnancy! Okay okay. So now let's talk about my labor.. 

I was 38 weeks pregnant and was already completely finished with being pregnant... I wanted this baby out.. Nothing had seemed to work though. I walked, i did sqauts, I ate pineapple, I eat extra spicy food. Still nothing. One night my boyfriends sister was driving me home. She took Eglinton down, my oh my did this street have so many pot holes, and she drives a car that's quite lowered... I swear this is what putme into   labor. At 3 o'clock am on Wednesday September 18 2013 I woke up with cranky feelings like I needed to take a poop (sorry TMI) .. I didn't actually need to. Just pee. When I went to lie back down the pain started again. So I'm thinking to myself, just great I have Braxton Hicks at 3am! So I just stood there cause lying down was much too painful and started timing them... Oh, they were 5 mintues apart... So I held off thinking ok this is going to stop... UHHH noo.. The pain was so bad I started crying.. I then went to tell my mom.. Lol she didn't believe I was in labour , she said you sure.. I kept saying I didn't know... Just in case I was being tricked or something. I told her I'm gunna try taking a bath.. Well that didn't go to well . It hurt like HELL TO SIT DOWN.. I was thinking to myself I need to go to the hospital I should call my boyfriend . He is the hardest person alive to wake up outta his sleep.. Thankfully I caught him before he was going to work. I got to the hospital at 5:45am with contractions 30seconds - 1 min apart. When I was being examined the nurse said to me that she doubted I was anywhere past 1 cm... Well when she checked me I was at 5cm.. She almost fell backwards.. I got admitted to delivery right away. It was no becoming real, I wasn't going home being pregnant... This terrified me. Luckily I got to the hospital when I did cause about 7 ladies walked in right after me in labour! When I got to delivery room I couldn't sit, stand walk NOTHING I was crying. This was the worst feeling and pain in the world.. I needed that epidural. I finally got one at about 7:40am and phew.. That is a life saver.. TO ANY MOTHERS WHO HAD THEIR CHILDREN WITH NO DRUGS CONGRATULATIONS YOUR LITERALLY A SUPER HERO! The nurses let the epidural kick in before checking me again. When they checked me I was at 7.5cm, this is when they broke my water. They told me to take a nap but I couldn't with that huge red clock infront of my bed... So I just waited and waited .. All of sudden I heard the monitor start beeping.. My daughters heartbeat was getting really low.. They started flipping me side to side.. They couldn't get it back up... Everything happend really fast after this... Suddenly my room was full of doctors and nurses my boyfriend mom and I started to panic... I was put on oxygen and the table was getting ripped open for me to start pushing.. I was crying uncontrollably.. I was so scared... My boyfriend and mom were re assuring me everything was going to be ok.. But I thought other wise. They ended up turning my epidural off. I was waaaay to numb which was why my daughters heart beat was dropping rapidly. So I started to push I blacked out while pushing, don't really remeber much except feeling my but coming off the table cause she was pulling the baby with forceps.. I only pushed for about five mintues. My beautiful baby girl was then born at 11:22am weighing in 6 pounds 9 oz and 19 inches long.. She was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen.. Now I couldn't really hold her right after I gave birth since I was getting stitched up.. (They cut me and I ripped). When they were done and I was actually able to hold her, I almost fainted due to the fact I was extremely weak and exhausted . My poor bubba had bruising on her face from the forceps it broke my heart into peices. But she was healthy which made it all ok... Now I swear after labour was more painful then actually giving birth!!!!!! I couldn't walk, move, nothing... Oh did I mention I couldn't go pee by myself ethier? Yeah, I couldn't go... Cause of the stupid catheter they inserted.... Well I was numb for most of the day after giving birth pain only started to hit me at night.. I was now feeling it all.. The tyelnol wasn't working.. So they had to give me strong painkillers... That didn't work ethier... Instead I then started feeling a pain in my chest... Here I'm thinking I'm going to have a heart attack or something.. So a nurse came in and hooked me up to a bunch of monitors to see if my heart was the problem... It wasn't thankfully. I pulled a muscle in my chest from pushing... Ouch... I got released the next day with my baby girl. She passed all the tests with flying colours... I couldn't sit in my mothers car.. It hurt so bad so I was standing the whole time.. Lol. Thank god for my boyfriend and mom because if it wasn't for them I probably wouldn't have ever healed.... I spent the next three weeks in ALOT OF PAIN. But I think it was all worth it for the beautiful baby I got out of it :)

Here's a couple pictures;

9 months pregnant

Before I gave birth

 

Avah with her Daddy only a couple mintues old.

Avah and Mommy (me) about an hour old. 

I hope you all enjoyed reading this.. Till next time:D  

Mommy Quotes

Hey everyone! I just wanted to show you all some if my favourite quotes that I've collected over the internet! None of these are mine personally! 

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3.No one is ever quite ready; everyone is always caught off guard. Parenthood chooses you. And you open your eyes, look at what you've got, say "Oh, my gosh," and recognize that of all the balls there ever were, this is the one you should not drop. It's not a question of choice.

 

4.Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. 

— Marion C. Garretty

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And I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know. — Mitch Albom

8.The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

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When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

12. “By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacation-less class.” - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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These are all pretty much my favourite mommy quotes . I could write a whole book if I posted every single one of my favourite quotes! 

I also found this beautiful blog that someone wrote on pintrest about their tiger stripes (strech marks) ! 

Here it is;

My Favourite Baby Products

Hey everyone. Today I'm going to post what some of my favourite baby products are! These are things I use almost everyday! 

Here it is;

Pamper Swaddlers Diapers.

So I used pampers since she was born. I decided when I was pregnant, they've always worked perfect for me and the fit her good. I barley have leaks and when I do it's cause her diapers are too small.. I tried to use Pampers Baby Dry Diapers, but because my daughter has sensitive skin like me they gave her a bum rash. 

Fisher price Piano Play Gym.

This gym has been one if the best purchases I've ever made! I originally got a bright starts pink one for my baby shower, but she never really showed By interest in that one. She loves this gym. This also adjusts for older ages into a piano and it adjusts for tummy time! Cool right? 

Carters Clothing.

I think that carters has the cutest clothes ever and CHEAP. Although they fit small, the clothes are durable and don't fade after let's say 6 washes.. Basically my whole daughters wardrobe is this clothing line. Lol if I walk into this store I tend to leave with bags and bags filled.. My boyfriend could kill me... Says she doesn't need that much clothes but hey, I can't help myself!!! 

Nuk Pacifier.

So let's just say, I knew from the start I wanted my daughter to have a pacifier.. Because babies tend to find comfort in them. I tried every single pacifier the stores have. She did not like any of them.. Until my mom said "maybe your using a weird style try the NUK ones". Sure enough she took to these. She's very specific person. Takes after her momma... Lol 

Tommee Tippee Anti-Colic Bottles.

So these bottles are great. I originally didn't buy these I bought just the regular bottles from their brand.. I noticed though  my daughter was always fussy.. She had bad gas.. So I switched to these which seemed to make a big difference. They are very easy to clean and work with. I also use this brands microwave sterilizer. It works good, fast and also easy to clean!

Johnson's Soothing Vapor Bath.

This product really works. It's exactly like Vicks rub, except it's not as strong.It's completely safe for infants and children. My daughter got really sick about about 21/2 months old. Due to her age no medication could be given, but it was horrible.. I mean she had a cough that sounded like a dog with mucus... Not a good picture huh.. So I decided to buy this since I was told the Vicks baby rub was still not appropriate for her age.. And it helped a lot. Just put a couple drops in her bath let her soak in it and then next morning she was already feeling better. And the scent seems like it'll probably make your baby smell like Vicks for a couple days.. But nope... I couldn't smell it off her at all once her bath was finished .. 

Huggies Natural Care Wipes.

So I didn't originally wanna go with this brand. I was going to go with pampers everything. But I had a lot of samples of these that I was trying out on myself to remove makeup and what not. I have very sensitive skin, so these wipes did not make my face feel oily like pampers wipes did, they didn't make my skin get red spots like pampers wipes did and they aren't scented. So last minute I decided to switch the brand I was gunna use on my daughter. Well I love them. Cause she has sensitive skin just like me and these work perfect. Plus they are always on sale. So I get like 800 wipes plus a free tub in a box for like 18$ ! SCORE!!! 

Camilia Teething.

The worst stages of a infants life is probably when they start teething.. They are usually in a lot of pain and nothjnf can really help... My daughter doesn't like teethers, so my mom informed me on this product for the most part is usually calms her down instantly!! The great part about this product is that it's homopathic.. So there are no harmful chemicals that are going into her body. It looks and taste like water.. It's a little pricy but completely worth it! 

Zincofax Original Diaper Rash Cream.

Okay. Now I just discovered this product about a month ago. My landlord actually recommended it to me after trying every diaper rash cream they sold in stores and even powder! Nothing had ever seemed to work on my daughters bum! I even got a prescription diaper rash cream which made her bottom WORSE! This cream works wonders.. Clears a bum rash in about a day! It's great since my daughter gets really really cranky when she has one. Again, it's a little pricy, but it works wonders! 

Johnson's Body Wash, Shampoo and Powder.

So these are the products that are used every single day for bath time. I use the lavender body wash because it helps soothe them for bedtime. Her Bath time is always right before her bedtime. The Shampoo smells great, and leaves her hair so soft and silky! The Lavender powder smells so good, and also has a calming effect on her, I only put this powder though on her body, not ever her bum! 

  

Minnie Mouse.

My daughter is in love with the show "Mickey Mouse Club House". She can literally watch it over and over again.. Well maybe only the opening song and end song. Lol. But still it's her favourite show! So I bought her a Mickey and Minnie for valentines day and she absolutely loves these little stuffed toys. She cuddles them and chews on their noses lol!!! 

Rubber Ducky.

So this simple little toy that's probably been around for sooo many years is also one of her favourites.. She loves when you squeeze it, doesn't make a squeaky sound but it sounds like some time of air is comming out. She thinks it's hilarious! She also loves chewing on this! It's also bright in colour (the few I have are) and tends to get her attention quite fast!! 

Well guys, this is some of my favourite products ! Hope it helps some new mommies out there! Thanks for reading <3

My Blog Name

So, I wanted to explain to everyone how I picked my blog name "One Little FootStep At A Time". This took me a lot of thought ! I was up till 3AM trying to figure it out.. I used generators, searched and wrote out my favourite things ... Nothing was comming to me.. I was just about to give up and say screw this I'm not making a blog anymore.. So I slept on it hoping to wake up and have brilliant idea .. Lol! Seemed to work out! Ta-Da ! A light bulb went off. I wanted a name that included a bunch of things tied into one. So here comes the explanation. I don't know if any of you are aware of the the poem known as " Footprints In The Sand".

 Here is it; 

"One night I dreamed I was walking along the beach with the Lord. Many scenes from my life flashed across the sky.

In each scene I noticed footprints in the sand. Sometimes there were two sets of footprints, other times there was one only.

This bothered me because I noticed that during the low periods of my life, when I was suffering from anguish, sorrow or defeat, I could see only one set of footprints, so I said to the Lord,

“You promised me Lord,
that if I followed you, you would walk with me always. But I have noticed that during the most trying periods of my life there has only been one set of footprints in the sand. Why, when I needed you most, have you not been there for me?”

The Lord replied, “The years when you have seen only one set of footprints, my child, is when I carried you.” 

So ever since I had my daughter I have been or at least am trying to be apart of God&Jesus' life. I feel that it's quite important I be faithful to them since I am Catholic and they gave me this beautiful child.  I figured the words of this poem is PERFECT for a blog name! It's just a reminder that every step you take you are guided. The "little" is a reminder to my daughter that I will also be there to help her get through the toughest situations possible... As long as she allows me to. 

Every step we take in life is guided by Jesus Christ himself! I now realize this.. So whenever I'm in a storm I know I have hope that the power above will be there every second. 

One little footstep at a time - Introduction

Hey, my name is Kayla. This is my first blog and I would just like to introduce myself a little bit. Okay so here it goes...  I'm 19 years old turning 20 May 10 and I'm a proud MOMMY to a beautiful baby girl named Avah Marie who has just turned five months old. I'm also in love with her father. We've been together for 3 years two months.Avah's birthday is September 18 2013. She has literally turned my life around for the better. Yes I became a mom at a young age but that doesn't change the fact that I'm a good mother to her and love her more then words would be able to explain. It's a 24/7, 7 Days a week job. Would I change it, to go back to my old ways? Never. Now I'm not at all glamorizing being a young mother because I definitely think couples should wait until they are older. Thankfully I have been working since I was about 15 years old. So I've had a steady income which helps ALOT. I'm currently on maternity leave, which I'm enjoying.. I wish that I didn't have to go back to work in September, but hey... That's how life works you need money to pay for stuff it's part of being human. I don't come from the richest family, I do though have a lot of support from my family! My mother also had me at the same age. She has truly helped me a lot and I'm very thankful for that because most young people don't have that kind of support from their parents. Did I mention I have a 6 year old sister? Yes, 6 years  old. We have a 131/2 gap. She's this fantastic girly girl, who has grown up to be such a little lady.. Man.. How time has gone by.. She took Avah a little hard in the beginning, but what 5 year old wouldn't? Now she says Avah is her best friend. It makes me so happy that they will grow up together cause I never really had anyone to grow up with. Since I was an only child for such a long time. I had every toy and was enrolled in every activity I wanted to be in, but I always wanted a sibling. My mom always gave me the best of the best.. Even though she was a single mother since day one, she gave me everything I ever wanted. She taught me how to become the independent women I am.. So I'm glad for that. Now your probably thinking about my dad. He's not in my life . He hasn't been since I was maybe 1-2 years old. He's a faded memory that truthfully I don't care to remember. All I remember is he caused a lot of heartache in my mother and my life. That's probably the last you'll ever hear of him. I do have have a step father. Who's been in my life since about 5-6 years old.. He's what I consider my father not that other piece of work I spoke about a little bit up. So I think I've explained a lot here. This is pretty good for my first blog. Have a good day :D till next time xoxo